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Identify the figure of speech in the sentence. The captain ordered all hands on deck before the storm reached the harbour.

Aeuphemism
Bhyperbole
CsynecdocheCORRECT
Dpersonification
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Why the answer is C, and why the others tempt you.
'Hands' is a part of the body used to stand for the whole sailors, and using a part to represent the whole is synecdoche. There is no exaggeration, no human quality given to a non-human thing, and no softening of an unpleasant idea, so the other figures do not apply.
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